08-18-2011, 05:20 PM
social housing is a great thing (i've used it) you can buy the house from the council at the market value should you wish.
and rent if you can't afford to buy or rent private housing. the house belongs to the council unless the tenant buys it. and as has been shown the tenant can be kicked out of said house if they take part in anti social behaviour, in which case it's often private and usually pretty bad. but i digress.
i think most countries have their disenfranchised. and i think those who looted are scum. i can think of now reason apart from greed why they did it. the people who live in the inner cities however are not all scum. some are, quite a few actually but so many are hard working good people. as leanne pointed out "not only poor people looted or rioted" i agree. for me the term scum applies to those guilty of such crimes no matter what class they belong to.
the financial crises we're in is because of successive gov's from and including good old maggy fucking everything up. the looting and the rioting apart from the initial demonstration had nothing at all to do with government or politics so in my opinion they can't really be blamed for the rioting and looting. to blame them would diminish societies accountability. jmo
and rent if you can't afford to buy or rent private housing. the house belongs to the council unless the tenant buys it. and as has been shown the tenant can be kicked out of said house if they take part in anti social behaviour, in which case it's often private and usually pretty bad. but i digress.
i think most countries have their disenfranchised. and i think those who looted are scum. i can think of now reason apart from greed why they did it. the people who live in the inner cities however are not all scum. some are, quite a few actually but so many are hard working good people. as leanne pointed out "not only poor people looted or rioted" i agree. for me the term scum applies to those guilty of such crimes no matter what class they belong to.
the financial crises we're in is because of successive gov's from and including good old maggy fucking everything up. the looting and the rioting apart from the initial demonstration had nothing at all to do with government or politics so in my opinion they can't really be blamed for the rioting and looting. to blame them would diminish societies accountability. jmo